Robert Dodge House
Robert Dodge House | |
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| Architect | Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux |
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| Part of | Georgetown Historic District |
The Robert Dodge House in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. is a historic home designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building in the Georgetown Historic District, which is also a U.S. National Historic Landmark District.
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It was described in Calvert Vaux's Villas and Cottages book of 1857 and was documented on the Historic American Buildings Survey.[1] Photographs of its exterior, interior, and building plans were made part of the Historic American Buildings Survey and are on Wikimedia Commons.[2]
The house was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux.[3] Many of its Italianate features were removed.[4] It originally had a porch tower. It was built for Robert P. Dodge, an engineer for the C & O Canal and was involved in business with Georgetown Gas Light Company and the Columbia Flour Mill.[5]
References
- ^ "HABS No. DC-246: Robert P. Dodge House: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data" (PDF). Historic American Buildings Survey. 1969.
- ^ "Dodge House". Historic Structures.
- ^ https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/152
- ^ "Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC" – via Library of Congress Digital Collections.
- ^ "Robert P. Dodge House". SAH ARCHIPEDIA. July 16, 2018.
External links
Media related to Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 28th Street NW at Wikimedia Commons- Robert P. Dodge House, 1534 Twenty-eighth Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC, full Historic American Buildings Survey record